FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 21, 2021 Contact:Jan Kruse (jkruse@nclc.org) Letter Reflects Bipartisan Support for State Interest Rate Caps and the Need to Stop “Rent-a-Bank” Evasions by Predatory Lenders In a rare form of bipartisan agreement, a group of 25 Attorneys General (AGs) sent a letter today to Congressional leadership urging it to “use the Congressional [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 20, 2021 OCC Rule Usurps Role States Have Had Since Founding of the Nation in Protecting Families from Usurious Lending Contacts: Prof. Chris Odinet, christopher-odinet@uiowa.edu Prof. Paul Kantwill, pkantwill@luc.edu Prof. Adam Levitin, AJL53@law.georgetown.edu A group of 138 scholars, including professors of banking law and consumer finance regulation, from 43 states and [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 19, 2021 National Consumer Law Center contact: Jan Kruse (jkruse@nclc.org) NCLC Attorney Praises CFPB for Upholding the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act on Rule that Could Impact up to 9 Million Families Behind in Rent Payments Boston - Today, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced an interim final rule that will [...]
Download the report, including several client stories and policy recommendations Washington, D.C. – Thousands of extremely low-income older adults and people with disabilities have likely had their Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits cut off erroneously, bringing many of them to the brink of homelessness, according to a groundbreaking report from the National Consumer Law Center [...]
Potentially thousands of extremely low-income elderly and people with disabilities have had their Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits cut off erroneously, bringing many of them to the brink of homelessness. Lax matching standards in LexisNexis Accurint reports used by the Social Security Administration (SSA) and a lack of independent investigations by SSA staff lead to [...]
This blog is co-authored by Olivia Wein (National Consumer Law Center) and Larry Levine (NRDC) For many of us, the accelerating rollout of COVID-19 vaccines provides hope for a light at the end of the tunnel. But the vaccines are still in a race against time, with COVID-19 again resurging in many states. Maintaining access [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 5, 2021 Contacts: National Consumer Law Center: Jan Kruse (jkruse@nclc.org) Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund: Carter Dougherty(carter@ourfinancialsecurity.org) Washington, D.C. - Housing advocates at the National Consumer Law Center, Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund, National Community Stabilization Trust, and the National Housing Law Project responded to the Consumer Financial Protection [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 1, 2021 National Consumer Law Center contact: Jan Kruse (jkruse@nclc.org) The Administration’s multi-trillion dollar infrastructure plan includes funding to replace 100% of lead pipes and service lines and help close the digital divide WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Wednesday, President Joe Biden’s administration unveiled the American Jobs Plan. In what the administration [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 1, 2021 National Consumer Law Center contact: Jan Kruse (jkruse@nclc.org) Washington, D.C. - Today, the Supreme Court issued an opinion that nullifies one of the most important protections against unwanted robocalls: the Telephone Consumer Protection Act’s prohibition against autodialed calls and texts to cellphones without the called party’s consent. In Facebook, [...]
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